Tom Berenger Biography
Tom Berenger is an actor from the United States. In Platoon (1986), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the ruthless Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes. He is also known for his roles as Jake Taylor in Major League and Thomas Beckett in Sniper. He also appeared in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), The Dogs of War (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Betrayed (1988), and other films.
Tom Berenger Age
He was born Thomas Michael Moore on May 31, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Tom is 74 years old as of May 2023.
Tom Berenger Education
Moore graduated from Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1967. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, but decided to pursue an acting career after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971.
Tom Berenger Height
Tom stands at a height of 5′ 11″ (1.8 m) tall.
Tom Berenger Family- Parents
Berenger was born and raised in Chicago, to a Catholic family of Irish ancestry, with his great-grandfather and grandmother settling there. His sister’s name is Susan. His father was a traveling salesman and a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Tom Berenger’s Wife- Children
Berenger has six children from four marriages. Allison Moore (born 1977) and Patrick Moore (born 1979) are his two children from his first marriage to Barbara Wilson, whom he married from 1976 to 1984. He has three daughters from his second marriage to Lisa Williams (from 1986 to 1997): Chelsea Moore (born 1986), Chloe Moore (born 1988), and Shiloh Moore (born 1993). Scout Moore (born 1998) is his daughter from his marriage to Patricia Alvaran from 1998 to 2011. In early September 2012, he married Laura Moretti in Sedona, Arizona.
Tom Berenger Career
He worked in regional theater before becoming a flight attendant with Eastern Airlines in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1972. In 1973, he relocated to New York. Moore chose “Berenger” as his professional name after being forced to change his surname due to an existing “Tom Moore” in the Actors’ Equity Association. Berenger appeared in soap operas, including One Life to Live, where he played lawyer Tim Siegel. Rush It (1976), an independent film, marked his feature film debut. In 1977, he played the killer of the lead character (played by Diane Keaton) in the film Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was based on the murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn.
In the 1980s, Berenger appeared in a number of significant films, including The Big Chill (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985), Platoon (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), and Major League (1989). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the ruthless Staff Sergeant Barnes in Platoon in 1986 (this performance also earned him a Golden Globe Award for “Best Supporting Actor”). Thomas Beckett, the main character in the mid-1990s film Sniper (which was later followed by six sequels, four of which starred Berenger), is one of his most well-known roles. Other notable films in which he appeared during that time period include Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
In 1988, he established the Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund to honor theatre students who excel in performance. Berenger has maintained an active acting career in film and television in recent years, albeit often in supporting roles. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series” for his role as Rebecca Howe’s blue collar-plumber love interest on Cheers during its final season. In the 1990s, he also began a career as a producer. Berenger co-produced the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders, in which he also played Theodore Roosevelt. Berenger can also be seen on the box art and promotional materials for Novalogic’s Delta Force: Assault.
He played a celebrated author who discovers the warped painting he recently purchased is alive with illustrations of impending doom for him in “The Road Virus Heads North” in the mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Breaking Point, a dramatic thriller starring Berenger, Armand Assante, and Busta Rhymes, had a limited release beginning in December 2009. Berenger co-starred in the 2010 science fiction thriller Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy as a business executive who mentored and worked with Murphy’s character’s father. It was his first major film role since 2001’s Training Day. In 2012, he played Jim Vance in the TV miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.
Tom Berenger’s Net Worth
Tom has an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars as of 2022.
Tom Berenger Movies
2017 Training Day
2014 Hawaii Five-0
2013–2015 Major Crimes
2012 Hatfields & McCoys
2011 XIII: The Series
2008 Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway
2007–2008 October Road Bob ‘The Commander’
2007 America’s Iliad: The Siege of Charleston
2006 Nightmares & Dreamscapes:
2005 Into the West
2005 Detective
2004 Capital City
2003 Third Watch
2003 Peacemakers
2002 Ally McBeal
2002 The Junction Boys
2001 Johnson County War
2000 Law & Order
2000 Cutaway
